I've been thinking about the maniacal rantings of the woman who passes as the leader of Argentina and I've come to a conclusion. I think that she is right about colonialism and that regarding Argentina it is something we should consider correct. So I suggest we give Argentina back to Spain and hopefully, it will help the Spaniards recover.
Although with Argentina's record on economic competence, it's more likely to drag them down.
Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
The Falklands
Argentina is a country that is perpetually ruled by grubbing types, either military or political. The present President is a vain, yet quite unattractive woman called Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who became wealthy through corrupt land deals. She rails these days, not against herself, her corruption and the appalling mess she is making of a country already in a bad way.
No, she diverts attention away from her to the Falkland Islands and British colonialism, which is oppressing the people of the Islands. This her people believe because they are taught it at school, but like global warming, that doesn't make it true. Naturally if the islands were a colony of Argentina she wouldn't have a problem with colonialism.
Some people think her timing cynical, to reopen the wounds of the 1982 war, but this is coincidence. Her timing is based on the fact that oil has been found around the islands and her greed knows no bounds or reason. Her country could be looking for oil in its own regions, but that would require effort; so much better to take other people's possessions and the fruit of their labour.
And, as she well knows the Islanders speak English and wish to retain their links with the UK, not Argentina. So another of her planks is pulled away because if she invaded these foreign shores again, it would be Argentina, once again acting in the role of oppressor.
In 1982 there was genuine surprise among many conscripts in the Argentine forces, to find the local population hostile to them and decidedly British. This was not what they had been told to expect. It may well make sense for the Islands to be part of Argentina, it being the closest mainland. But not when it is run by corrupt nutters, so the choice of the Islanders, in the circumstances is both logical and right.
In fact, the Falklanders could offer to take over Argentina, thus not only making the coveted link, but also providing some people who are not power crazed crackpots, to restore the country to prosperity.
No, she diverts attention away from her to the Falkland Islands and British colonialism, which is oppressing the people of the Islands. This her people believe because they are taught it at school, but like global warming, that doesn't make it true. Naturally if the islands were a colony of Argentina she wouldn't have a problem with colonialism.
Some people think her timing cynical, to reopen the wounds of the 1982 war, but this is coincidence. Her timing is based on the fact that oil has been found around the islands and her greed knows no bounds or reason. Her country could be looking for oil in its own regions, but that would require effort; so much better to take other people's possessions and the fruit of their labour.
And, as she well knows the Islanders speak English and wish to retain their links with the UK, not Argentina. So another of her planks is pulled away because if she invaded these foreign shores again, it would be Argentina, once again acting in the role of oppressor.
In 1982 there was genuine surprise among many conscripts in the Argentine forces, to find the local population hostile to them and decidedly British. This was not what they had been told to expect. It may well make sense for the Islands to be part of Argentina, it being the closest mainland. But not when it is run by corrupt nutters, so the choice of the Islanders, in the circumstances is both logical and right.
In fact, the Falklanders could offer to take over Argentina, thus not only making the coveted link, but also providing some people who are not power crazed crackpots, to restore the country to prosperity.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Falklands Defence
I read in the Mail that the MoD have drawn up plans to defend the Falklands in case the nutter running Argentina has to distract the Argentine people from a) her running of the country and b) just where her money came from. From what we gather the MoD squeezes only momentary fractions of its time into the job we expect them to do, spending most time on sick days, bonus schemes, holiday, research holidays, supplier visit holidays and meetings about meetings (to swap holiday destinations), pausing only to sign off procurement of something they saw in an Eagle comic or a brochure that looked nice/had a free holiday attached.
I can only imagine a plan drawn up by the excessively large number of people not doing very much in Whitehall would go something like this. Firstly it would involve ordering equipment which could then be used to defend the Islands, like aircraft carriers. They may not be ready for 20 years, but considering whether that might be relevant doesn't fall within the parameters of the project plan.
Then order some planes that don't exist, to fly from the carriers that aren't built yet. Ships would be dispatched, but they would be supply ships, which due to the haste necessary to meet an imminent threat, they didn't actually load with anything. Ships with guns and missiles on them being be on a good will visit to Switzerland.
Extra troops would be loaded into aircraft to be flown to the airstrip built on the Falklands for the purpose, but the planes would circle endlessly searching for the runway amongst the Orkney Islands, which the MoD believe is where the Falklands are. Keen to show they are now a thinking part of austerity Britain the MoD would load older ammunition to use that up first; 7.62mm instead of the 5.56mm now used by the standard rifle.
This might suggest that the MoD are gormless and useless, but the reality is somewhat worse.
I can only imagine a plan drawn up by the excessively large number of people not doing very much in Whitehall would go something like this. Firstly it would involve ordering equipment which could then be used to defend the Islands, like aircraft carriers. They may not be ready for 20 years, but considering whether that might be relevant doesn't fall within the parameters of the project plan.
Then order some planes that don't exist, to fly from the carriers that aren't built yet. Ships would be dispatched, but they would be supply ships, which due to the haste necessary to meet an imminent threat, they didn't actually load with anything. Ships with guns and missiles on them being be on a good will visit to Switzerland.
Extra troops would be loaded into aircraft to be flown to the airstrip built on the Falklands for the purpose, but the planes would circle endlessly searching for the runway amongst the Orkney Islands, which the MoD believe is where the Falklands are. Keen to show they are now a thinking part of austerity Britain the MoD would load older ammunition to use that up first; 7.62mm instead of the 5.56mm now used by the standard rifle.
This might suggest that the MoD are gormless and useless, but the reality is somewhat worse.
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